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Submitting your book proposal

If you’re interested in writing a book for UCL Press, then we’d love to hear from you. We welcome proposals for monographs, short monographs, edited collections and textbooks.

Please contact Pat, Chris or Dhara with a brief outline of your book so they can assess whether it falls within our scope. If it does, they’ll send you a proposal form to complete.

Our commissioning editors are:

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Pat Gordon-Smith


Pat brings 40 years of experience, during which time she commissioned works for a number of academic publishers and professional organisations.

Dr Chris Penfold


Chris has been commissioning books for UCL Press since its launch in 2015.

Dhara Snowden

Textbooks Publisher


Dhara joined the team in 2021 and is responsible for commissioning undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks across a range of subjects, including Humanities, Social Sciences, STEM and Business. Before joining the Press, Dhara held editorial roles at Rowman & Littlefield International, Edinburgh University Press and Bloomsbury Publishing. She is passionate about research-led teaching and keen to create new textbooks that support students with hybrid learning.

If you’re planning to publish a monograph based on your PhD research, please read the advice on our From thesis to monograph page.

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